Monthly Archives: January 2014

Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to welcome the newest addition to the BHS Help Desk-senior John Vallerand. For his debut post, John has put together a list of helpful iPad tips as well as a few hidden features of the iPhone. iPad 101: Understanding the basics of your iPad is essential. Below is a list of…

Editor’s Note: This post, along with the HD Live logo was created by Help Desk students Harsh & Amit What is Help Desk Live? A live Google broadcast about a different topic every week on Friday. What happens to the broadcast afterwards? It’s uploaded to the Help Desk YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure. Each week,…

Ashay Lokhande and Michelle Sahagian both had the opportunity to wear Google Glass as they performed a cross examination of witnesses and delivered the closing argument during Ms. Fishel’s AP World History Mongol trial project. When I entered Ms. Fishel’s class with Glass and asked who wanted to try it, almost every student in the…

In addition to our bi-monthly How Do I Do That Sessions, the BPS EdTech Team recently announced the App Explorer Challenge. This is a new way for teachers to earn 3 hours of Inservice credit. The first challenge is to create a 2-3 minute movie using the iMovie iPad app. Help Desk is eager and excited…

Editor’s Note: I am pleased to feature a guest post authored by BHS students Shivesh Shah, Ashay Lokhande, Arvind Pasupuleti, Jay Patel, Kumaraman Srivastav, and Kush Patel which highlights the way they are using their iPads as members of Chuck Wood’s AP Biology class. Over the course of the last three years, Burlington High School…

“I want to develop apps for it.” This was Amit Patel’s response when asked by Dennis Villano, the Burlington Public Schools Director of Instructional Technology, why he would want to own a pair of Google Glass. Amit goes on to say, “We have seen the first iPhone take the world by storm and now the…

Burlington is excited to have the opportunity to experiment with Google Glass. The first teacher at Burlington High School to use Glass is Chemistry teacher Holly Potters. Using Glass, Mrs. Potters recorded a double replacement lab for her students to observe. The advantage of using Glass for this experiment, as opposed to an iPad, is…